By now, the story of teenage metal trio Unlocking The Truth (who walked away from a seven-figure deal with Sony) is well known. After years of media excitement, late-night TV appearances, and breakout sets at Coachella and Bonnaroo, the band’s debut album Chaos was finally released independently last year. The Brooklyn-based band is now back with a new music video for their latest single “My Chains”. The video (directed by JP Brasca) cuts through much of the hype surrounding the group and shows a different side of the band.

“We wanted the video to show that Unlocking The Truth has more to offer than just a good song,” says guitarist/vocalist Malcolm Brickhouse. “The video and song both push the envelope for ‘the norm’ in metal music. It’s fresh. It’s new. It’s MY CHAINS!“

The track is a soulful metal hybrid, co-produced by Brickhouse (and Kenta Yonesaka, Germano Studio NY), who says “The meaning of ‘My Chains’ will be different for everyone, but there’s a line in the song for everyone. Think about it. We all have chains in life. It could be somebody or something we use as a crutch to help us get through life and loosen those chains.“

Montreal based, blues-infused rock band The Damn Truth are back at their devilish ways with the release of the video for “White Lies,” off of their sophomore LP, Devilish Folk. The gritty, heavy grooves of “White Lies” is a raw. indie rock masterpiece that is perfectly paired with visuals by Fatty Soprano and Shutterr.

The Damn Truth have also announced their first US Tour kicking off on the (Sold Out) Rock Legends 2018 Cruise (Sammy Hagar, Bad Company, Uriah Heep, and more) and will spend the next two months making friends across the U.S. with their high energy rock’n’roll.

Over the years, Canada has given us a lot of great bands; Neil Young , Alanis Morrisette, Arcade Fire, Bryan Adams, The Guess Who, BTO, Rush and many more.

Well, now there’s a new name you can add to that list; The Damn Truth.

Singer-guitarist Lee-la Baum has been called the love child of Robert Plantand Janis Joplin; mixing up the best of the classic rock the band loves with the indie energy of their hometown Montreal scene.

The band is here to introduce their new album (their 2nd), Devilish Folk, meet their American fans, and promote the new single, “White Lies”.

But the journey to get here has been a Behind The Music tale of drama, misfortune, and lucky breaks.

For example, you could say there’s nothing more rock n’ roll than your van blowing up in the middle of your biggest national tour to date. Unless of course, you’re The Damn Truth, and you’ve barely escaped with just the clothes on your back while most everything else is up in flames. And, oh yeah, it’s pitch black in the middle of nowhere in the northern Canadian backwoods. And you’ve got your 3-year old son and his babysitter also on board. And, did we mention it’s in the middle of winter – A Canadian winter.

“We had literally just driven out from a garage in the last town where the mechanic told us everything was fine. Thank god this car drove up beside us on the highway – waving their arms frantically – and told us that the van was on fire . We stopped, got as much stuff out as we could, and then literally watched the van blow up in front of us; all our gear – gone.” remembers drummer Dave Traina.

Nothing has ever come easy for The Damn Truth, but for every adversity there has been some unexpected reward. In this case, they quickly scrambled a funding campaign that raised over ten thousand dollars within 24 hours. The experience brought out the best from their fans and the local community and a renewed faith in the power of music. The tour continued. The shows – and their belief in rock n’roll – got stronger.

And now The Damn Truth are set to do it all over again (except for the blowing up part, of course).

A lot of good things have happened since then for the Montreal based quartet such as singer Lee-la Baum turning in a heart-stopping vocal for an Yves St Laurent TV commercial- their new perfume, Mon Paris, that is rolling out worldwide. The vocal (a cover of “Love Is Blindness” by U2) has had such an impact, raking in over 400K views, thousands of comments, emails and orders have come in from around the globe, exposing the band to a wide audience of new “Truth Seekers “.

The Damn Truth have their roots definitely in 60s and 70s rock ,but they are adding to that palette with alt-rock and indie-rock and whatever-else-kind-of rock attitudes and power; basically, what makes the music stronger is all that counts. Consider the pedigree of the alternative and classic rock credentials of Devilish Folk.

Devilish Folk mixed by Grammy-award winner Tchad Blake(Black Keys, Pearl Jam, Arctic Monkeys, and others). All this power was brought to the forefront via the mastering of John Davis, responsible for the recent Led Zeppelin re-issues in addition to work with U2, Lana del Ray, Stone Roses, Florence & The Machine, and others.

The Damn Truth have always been a self-contained unit; producing their own records, videos, and hanging out old-school after a show; meeting the fans one by one.

“We’ve had to work hard every step of the way,” says lead guitarist Tom Shemer. “But that’s ok. People know it’s real when they come to the shows”.

Part of that ethos is the family vibe amongst the band; Tom and Lee-la travel with their 3-year old son “there has never been a choice in the matter. Rock n’ roll has always been our lives and his too. He’s been on tour since he was 2 months old. “ says Lee-la

The Damn Truth are Lee-la Baum (vocals/guitar), Tom Shemer (guitars), PY Letellier (bass) and Dave Traina (drums). There are echoes of Jack White, Arctic Monkeys, Gretta Van Fleet, and Brittany Howard of the Alabama Shakes, all of it uniquely channelled through Lee-la’s powerful vocals; creating an emotional rock that’s both distinguished them and made them something of a musical anomaly.

“Jimi Hendrix taught me everything I needed to know about that rock’n’roll attitude,” says Lee-la, “and he was my first real rockstar crush!”

The world is evolving , rock n’ roll and social norms are changing.
Women are taking charge and Lee-la Baum and The Damn Truth are here to break those sexist stigmas every step of the way.

In honor of National Entrepreneurs’ Day, Ohio-based rock band Chil has shared their list of tips for running your band like a business. The quartet has premiered a brand new music video and single to accompany the piece, the effortlessly cool and catchy “Something to Live For”.

“These are the tools that we’ve utilized in Chil to grow from a band into a business,” says vocalist/frontman Nick Batton. “With every project that we work on, we look at how we can make each of these sections more effective, resulting in a superior end product. We hope that you will find success using these tips.” Read the full list of tips on Alternative Press.

Chil will be supporting the new single with a headlining gig at Musica in Akron, Ohio on Dec. 1. The band has also launched an IndieGoGo Campaign to help fund their trip to The Motor Museum Recording Studio, Liverpool’s most iconic studio, where they will work alongside producer Al Groves (Arctic Monkeys, Oasis, The 1975, The Black Keys).

Atlanta-based industrial/punk rock trio Remnants of Hope has released a music video for their new single “Bloody Murder” from the upcoming EP Grim Tides. The aggressive track straddles the line of real life atrocities and a mirroring, fictional post-apocalyptic setting where the band attempts to be fighters for the greater good.

“We’re sick, sick of how terrible everyone is to each other,” says guitarist Nykii Nightmare. “This song is our response.“

Remnants of Hope consists of three young brothers who began releasing music in 2014 with their debut single “Symphony of Sorrow”. The home-schooled teens were raised in a musical household, even performing in a cover band with their father before branching off to create their own sound. Since then, the siblings have been steadily releasing music and sharing the stage with acts like Farewell My Love, Famous Last Words, Eyes Set to Kill, Wednesday 13, and many others.

“Bloody Murder” will be available on the Grim Tides EP, set to release in late January.

This week, Swiss producer and live act Pablo Nouvelle has revealed the title track from his forthcoming album, Wired. Bringing together gentle atmospheres to support Lulu James’ soulful vocals, “Wired” is one of the reasons why his new album is so highly anticipated amongst his fans. Laced with brushing pads and precisely placed percussion, the song is a classic track we’ve grown to expect from Nouvelle, flawlessly enthralling from the first note till the last.

“Wired” is a strong statement ahead of Nouvelle’s album release, following the success of 2016’s ‘All I Need.’ Putting different facets and colors of his sound on display, ‘Wired’ showcases Nouvelle’s command over his production, and his ability to keep us enthralled and entertained with a wide variety of sounds.

“I think ‘Wired’ has become a very eclectic album with everything from dark club tunes to pop songs and more relaxed organic tracks”, says Pablo Nouvelle about the album. “The moment I finished ‘All I Need’, I had already began working on new songs that eventually became part of ‘Wired’. At that time, I had just moved to Zürich and dove into the vibrant club scene of the city. That certainly lets some traces on some of the album tracks, especially on ‘Wired’.”

Lulu James: “I remember quickly feeling completely sucked into this track. Pablo made it very easy for me to freely dance my words and emotion around the sounds he chose to work with, leading us down this hypnotic, sexy and moody journey. We paint this picture of colors pulsing out of darkness.”

Fort Lauderdale based Future Goth duo Modern Mimesrecently covered epochal Goth Metal legends Type O Negative’s 2003 “I Don’t Wanna Be Me,” and paired it with a visually alluring music video, and not only did the iconic surviving members approve, but quickly promoted the single and video ahead of release.

“This is great-this band Modern Mimes approached this cover just as type o would have: changed the tempo and feel of it and made it their own. Tones and mix are great as well. It sounds as if Type O did a cover of Type O. Amazing job. I love this. Its better than our version.” – Type O Negative Facebook

The Florida Based Modern Mimes is clearly here on business! Originally formed in late 2014, their creation can be best described as “future goth,” a term they coined to explain their fusion of soaring guitar, powerfully haunting vocals, subconscious evocative lyrics, and catchy pop sensibilities.

Modern Mimes consists of Adi Elcida Hernandez on vocals/guitar/sampling and Ernesto Paez on the double neck guitar bass. Ernesto came from the world of touring US extensively in heavy bands where Adi was a solo singer/songwriter. This teaming has created a conduit for the wellspring of creative and ambient offering that is Modern Mimes.

Unrestrained by genres or trends, Modern Mimes is the perfectly cathartic reflection of the inner workings of Adi and Ernesto, who are creating these sounds with the intention of inspiring listeners to journey through their subconscious and look within. Thei debut, Wake Up, is the 9 track concept album released in early 2017, which sets the tone and standard of their continual elevation. Catch Modern Mimes Live and discover what the others already know!

“This is one of the more talented and infectios bands we’ve found in recent years. Safe to say we’re big fans.” – Dom Smith (Soundsphere Magazine)

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Florida rockers, Lydia Can’t Breathe has unveiled their new NSFW claymation video for the title track off their new album, Tastes New. The video showcases the band’s creativity as it comes in claymation form and tells the tale of two lovers meeting and growing old together.

“Tastes New is the title track of our new album as well as our first love song. We usually write about smoking weed, movies, or partying so this was a new thing for us. It’s about how when you first meet someone and fall in love how awesome it is. It’s like eating something that tastes amazing for the first time!” – Vocalist, Kyle Bolduc

About Lydia Can’t Breathe:

Today, rock music and metal music seem to have been masked, manipulated, and drawn with every characterization possible. With genres of stagnate duplications and pools of curiously aggressive music addicts, the looming fans looking for an outlet have come to find Florida quartet Lydia Can’t Breathe. Over the past few years they have made a lot of noise in the metal scene. While constructing a sound unique to the usual genre classifications, this metal/rock band from Florida defies the normal sound with an exciting mixture of growling vocals, natural vocals, driving an over tone of heavy break downs with catchy progressions.

Lydia Can’t Breathe is an American rock band from Central Florida. It consists of Kyle Bolduc (lead vocals), AJ Murphy (guitar), Josh Runfeldt (drums), Ryan Cowell (guitar) and Shad Roundy (bass). All the band members were born in the United States. Lead singer Kyle, is known widely among Lydia fans for his unique views that are expressed outspokenly in his lyrics. Along with their inapprehensible behavior while performing, together their styles combined make up Lydia Can’t Breathe.

Lydia Can’t Breathe has caused mayhem with bands such as; Otep, Mushroomhead, New Years Day, Stolen Babies, Soulfly, Bleeding Through, Born of Osiris, Oceano, Prong, Kill Whitney Dead, The Wretched, Skum of the Earth, Last Chance to Reason, SWWAATS, The Autum Offering, The Demonstration, Hell Within, The Architect, and Sleeping Giant. More recently, LCB toured the U.S. with Mushroomhead and Otep in 2013. Also alongside Hed PE and DOPE in 2014, while promoting their second full length studio album “Time.”

The element of variety and level of experimentation in Lydia Can’t Breathe’s music has made them difficult to classify, but Lydia Can’t Breathe for the most part, has maintained a single style throughout their body of work. Their genre has been termed alternative metal, alternative rock, rock, experimental rock, hard rock, heavy metal, stoner metal, progressive metal, and progressive rock.

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The Bay Area band Sharp Tongue, who dub themselves as “Nu-Metalcore” have unveiled a new music video for their single “DEILD”. The song comes off the group’s four track EP, Petrichor which dropped September 22nd.

This song is about experiencing a DEILD (dream exit induced lucid dream). Exiting a dream when momentarily awaking, only to immediately re-enter that dream upon falling back asleep, in this case, a never ending nightmare, says vocalist, Allen Loesch. We tried capture the feeling of terror from this experience through this song and our new video.

Sharp Tongue has Petrichor available on iTunes and on their Bandcamppage, which is set up for a “name your price”. Watch the music video for “DEILD” below.

About Sharp Tongue:

The Bay Area has raised some of the finest acts in the metalcore genre, and continuing that tradition is none other than Santa Rosa’s Sharp Tongue. Originally founded in 2008 by a group of high school friends experimenting with varying degrees of pop-punk, hard rock, and metalcore, Sharp Tongue have grown to become what’s classified as “nu-metalcore”, a genre that combines metal of yesteryear with the features of the genre that the world knows today.

After spending numerous years experimenting with various types of music, the band turned to the music that originally influenced them and gave them their initial spark to pick up an instrument: throwbacks of the early 2000s. These musical influences are heard heavily throughout their four track debut EP Petrichor, set to be released in September 2017.

“We basically meshed all these inspirations from the bands that got us into music which created our own sound,” the band states. “It’s real, it’s organic, and we’re having the most fun we’ve had with music in a long time.” With even more new music in the works beyond Petrichor, the future is bright for Sharp Tongue.

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The high-energy Boston pop punk band Bleacher Days will be setting out on tour this December with Riviera (who recently performed at the Warped Rewind at Sea event). The punk package will start in Stroudsburgh, PA and end in Attleboro, MA on 12/16 (full list of dates below).

Bleacher Days will playing songs off their upcoming EP I only Saw True Purpose, produced by Chris Piquette (Trophy Wives, Lions Lions). The angst-charged, introspective songs on the new EP are poppy, but still pack enough punch to keep the mosh pits moving. Vocalist Wren Mohammed says the new record “is the product of frustration resulting from our lives and our relationships. The songs are a blunt chronicle of the back end of a 7 year relationship I was in and start to finish, each song is just frustration.“

In its first year of hard work, Bleacher Days has made an immediate impact on New England shows, rallying bands together and promoting in person on their way to selling out a 250 cap room with their most recent headliner. A feeling of camaraderie consumes the room when the band takes the stage and the relationships within the band run deeper than the band’s one year age would suggest. Longtime friends, past musical projects, and once abandoned ideas is what brought Bleacher Days together.

Ambient punk/post-rock quartet, Romancer has released their new music video and single “Nausicaa“, which comes of their upcoming EP titled, Honeybee, set to release November 24th. The new single is the first since group’s debut full length As We Both Close In On The Water which dropped in June of 2016.

“Honeybee is our most lyrically honest, and experimental release to date. I am so proud of us this time around, and I can say with confidence that we’ve all reached into the depths of our musicality and creativity to bring out the best in each other and this record.” -Romancer

With emo, pop punk and post-rock influences, the band brings a new and refreshing sound in a unique mix not heard in many bands today. Purchase or stream “Nausicaa” HERE and watch the new music video below.

Romancer will be complimenting their album release with a short tour, with indie rock band, Pfloog.

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Romancer is a four-piece Ambient Punk-Rock band that comes from Kitchener Ontario, Canada. Combined of members with incredible musical talents, Romancer has one goal; to bring the fans a sound that toes the line between soft intimacy and explosive aggressiveness.

Currently, this bunch of humble guys are ramping up to the release of their new project “honeybee” – their second and latest release as Romancer. “Honeybee is our most lyrically honest, and experimental release to date. I am so proud of us this time around, and I can say with confidence that we’ve all reached into the depths of our musicality and creativity to bring out the best in each other and this record” says Romancer lead vocalist/guitarist Adam Horrocks. The band released their debut EP “As We Both Close in on the Water” last year on June 10, 2016. Shortly after the band released the record, it quickly gained the likes of fans in numerous markets across Canada, USA, Europe, Mexico and Japan. Their track “Fireworks” had been featured on a compilation CD that was released via LA punk label Wiretap Records shortly after the release of their debut LP. FFO: Jimmy Eat World, Alexisonfire, Brand New & Moneen, this is surely one well-written and engaging record, and will stimulate from beginning to end.

Frequently touring, the bands fan base keeps growing in current and new markets. 2017 is set for the release of “honeybee,” a new music video and two tours, one being through eastern Canada.

New Jersey metalcore quintet ASHES, formerly known as Ashes Of My Regrets has released their debut music video and single under the new guise with a fitting title, “Newborn Soul“.

We spoke to vocalist, Chris Ferland about the single, “Lyrically this song is about just accepting who you are. It really in itself is a story about how I came to accept myself and how I want to share this new found self empowerment with others. I no longer care what people think of me, when people look down upon me or judge me, or hate on us its almost like a liberating feeling. It makes me think, well if you take time of your day to think about me then it must be for a reason and I must have done something right.”

As for the name change, Ferland went on to comment, “2017 has been one of the craziest years for us. Filled with more downs than ups but I truly believe that we all have grown not only as musicians but as people too. I feel like this is ASHES at its finest and I can’t wait to share it with the world.”

With ambient and synth delayed backtracks, poppy hooks and catchy harmonies, ASHES seems to be on top of whats to come next in metalcore. Check out “Newborn Soul” below.

About ASHES:

If your looking for a new exciting sound in rock and metal then you better go give ASHES a listen! A rock/metalcore band hailing from Northern NJ composed of 5 high school friends then want do nothing more then write songs, get on the road, and expose there music and message to as much people along the way. Taking inspiration from numerous amounts of genres they truly have created a fresh and unique sound. They will do anything to get where they want to be. So keep an eye out for this up and coming group. You will not be disappointed.

Upon hearing the name Coat Check Girl, you may think of Jayma Mays‘ character on that particular episode of How I Met Your Mother, but starting today you may also think of infectious, alt-rock music with a ska tinge. The Los Angeles band has released a music video for their new single “Audience of None,” produced by Latin Grammy Award winning producer Rodolfo “Rudy” Pagliuca. Although the polished track has an upbeat vibe, vocalist Andre Rodriguez says the lyrics are a bit of a contrast.

“This is the most personal song I have ever written,” says Rodriguez. “It was written about suicide and depression. The title ‘Audience of None’ refers to the fact that sometimes, for some people, no one’s there listening even when they’re screaming for help.“

A dreamy synth arrangement (provided by Chapis Lasca) gives the bouncy track a bit of grounding, while Rodriguez hammers away at the hook with an almost Rob Thomas flair. “Audience of None” is available now on iTunes and Spotify.